a walk down memory lane

Growing up, I attended a tiny international school in Kowloon City. I was there from Grades 1-12. I learned so much in those years, and I loved that school so very much. So, even though it's been nearly twenty years (!!!!) since I graduated from high school, I still get warm fuzzies whenever I see the little white building that used to house our school. It has since moved to a much larger and grander campus in the New Territories.

Can you see it? There it is, between the trees. I don't go to Kowloon City very often these days; it's not where we live or work. Today, though, we took a special trip to Kowloon City to pick up a gift for my uncle, whose birthday we're celebrating tomorrow night. I wanted to go to Kowloon City Plaza, a mall I went to on a daily basis back in high school, and shop at the department store there. A lot of the old hangouts are gone, of course - the CD shop, the big ParknShop where the more frugal students often purchased $10 bowls of rice with cha siu, and even the Pizza Hut isn't where it used to be - and the mall has been revamped and looks considerably brighter and more attractive than it used to. 

It felt funny going to 'KCP' as a grown woman, with my children! But there we were. We played at the playground at Carpenter Road Park, which is the proper name for the park behind the mall, and I told the children that I used to walk through this park almost every day. 

The playground itself is not terribly impressive; but it does have a larger than usual number of swings (6 in total), and the slides are pretty quick/steep! The children enjoyed themselves very much.  

Of course, you should also visit the Kowloon City Walled City Park, which is beautiful, and is right beside this play area. It has a lot of lovely traditional Chinese architecture and was the location we chose for our family pictures last year. I'll share some pics of that side of the park next time! We didn't have time to play there today as the sun was setting and I still had shopping to do!